Though Gilbert’s use of the Comic Sans font was the source of most of the post-letter mockery, the content is even better than you remember. It reads like an email missive from a high school sophomore dumped by his girlfriend of two weeks. Gilbert called LeBron a “former hero” and ripped his “cowardly betrayal” in a televised show that was a “narcissistic, self-promotional” spectacle unlike anything “witnessed in the history of sports.” He promised an NBA championship for Cleveland “before the self-titled ‘King’ wins one.” (Gilbert’s use of derisive quotation marks is unparalleled.) His letter to Cleveland also included this bizarre and forgotten line: “Some people think they should go to heaven but NOT have to die to get there.”

Though gone, will the letter be forgotten? At the time, it was thought that Gilbert wasn’t just burning a bridge with LeBron, but napalming it. He has since acknowledged that he would have “reworded” some portions of the letter, but stands by his need to issue a strong statement to fans.

There are dozens of factors at play as LeBron figures out his free agency options, but one of the biggest has to be whether the world’s greatest basketball player can forgive his former owner for bitter comments, petty snipes and juvenile font choices.

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